
Top 34 Quotes About Dirty Politics
#1. A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.
Richard Reeves
#2. We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.
Ciaran Hinds
#3. Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues.
James Dobson
#4. That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
Anita Loos
#5. Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things ... My conscience is clear.
Johannes Heesters
#6. The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.
Ray Davies
#7. We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.
Ali Suliman
#8. I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
Richard M. Nixon
#9. the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development
Albert Einstein
#10. Princes give rewards with their own hands,
But death or punishment by the hands of other.
John Webster
#11. We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.
Eric Liu
#12. It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.
Robert Kennedy
#13. I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.
John Mellencamp
#14. I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.
Charles Bukowski
#15. Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.
Suzy Kassem
#16. How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.
Will Durst
#17. Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison.
David Baldacci
#18. There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.
George Papandreou
#19. Theodore Senior belonged to a class and a generation that considered politics to be a dirty business, best left, like street cleaning, to malodorous professionals.
Edmund Morris
#20. New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous.
But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.
John Steinbeck
#21. Politics can be very mean and dirty. The things politicians say about each other, and what activists say, I had a brief glimpse of that for a couple of days. If I ever had any questions about whether I wanted to run for office, I now know the answer - I don't.
Matt Hasselbeck
#22. The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.
Norman Podhoretz
#23. Politics were so very simple, the Cardinal thought, just so long as a man believed no one, double-crossed everyone, kept a full treasury, and inveigled others into doing the dirty work.
Bernard Cornwell
#24. Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.
Jon Meacham
#25. Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.
Will Shetterly
#26. Unfortunately, 'climate' has become a dirty word - obviously in politics, but even to some degree in my world, in venture capital. People hesitate if they see something that's purported to be green. That's not a reason to invest for many people.
Evan Williams
#27. Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.
Tom Cotton
#28. It's (Politics) rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But it's the only sport for grownups.
Robert A. Heinlein
#29. Don't ever get involved in politics, Theo. It's a dirty game.
John Grisham
#30. You have to be a dead-eyed dirty-souled maniac to want to spend your extended life trading punches with other maniacs. Once you've seized that power, there's no getting off the merry-go-round. You fight like hell just to hold on or you get shoved off.
Scott Lynch
#31. If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
Edna Ferber
#32. politics was a necessarily dirty game of treachery and deceit.
Dave Robinson
#33. I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.
Steven Seagal
#34. Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.
Kevin Rudd
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